The Veteran's arthritis of the hands, hips, and knees was not shown as such in service, did not manifest within the one year presumptive period, and there were intercurrent causes to explain manifestations of the chronic disease many years after service as well as a lack of nexus between current disease and service and any post service continuity of symptomatology. Therefore, service connection is denied.
The deciding factor: The Veteran's arthritis was not shown in service and there are no intercurrent causes or nexus to connect it to service.
- Claimed conditions
- Arthritis of the bilateral hands, Arthritis of the bilateral hips, Arthritis of the bilateral knees
- How they argued it
- Not specified
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- March 8, 2013
- Citation
- 1307730
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